ART 111 CHAP 3.9

Most of Kazimir Malevich's Suprematist works look like paintings, but they are actually collages.

False

The art of the American Scene was divided into two branches, one of which was realistic and the other abstract.

False

The style and appearance of Agnes Martin's paintings was influenced by the Daoist emphasis on harmony in the universe.

True

Twentieth-century artists continued the representational explorations started by the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists.

True

Piet Mondrian was a founder of which movement? a. De Stijl b. Suprematism c. Minimalism d. Constructivism e. Cubism

a

The medium of Umberto Boccioni's Unique Forms of Continuity in Space is ________. a. plaster b. bronze c. marble d. copper e. gold

a

Aaron Douglas, the artist of Aspects of Negro Life: From Slavery Through Reconstruction, was particularly influenced by which of the following? a. Minimalism, Polaroid cameras, and classical music b. Art Deco, Egyptian wall painting, African art, and Modernist abstraction c. Italian Renaissance art, yo-yos, and gardening magazines d. Afro-Cuban dance, metal spatulas, and Where the Wild Things Are e. none of the other answers

b

Isabel Bishop's Waiting is part of which branch of the American Scene movement? a. Regionalist b. Social Realist c. Harlem Renaissance d. all of the other answers e. it was not part of the American Scene movement

b

The Dada performance of "Karawane" doesn't make sense because ________. a. the artist's original intentions were never recorded b. it was part of a movement that devalued logical thinking c. there were too many artists involved in one artwork d. multiple copies have been made and no one knows for sure which one is real e. none of the other answers

b

How does Constantin Brancusi's Bird in Space (L'Oiseau dans L'Espace) distill the vital qualities of a bird? a. by its feather covering b. by floating above the viewer c. by showing a flock of birds flying south for the winter d. by reminding us of bird or feather shapes or the soaring quality of flight e. because it is accompanied by an audio recording of bird song

d

Both Aaron Douglas and Augusta Savage were supported by the federal government through the WPA.

True

Roy Lichtenstein challenged traditional notions of the subject matter and appearance of fine art by painting and embracing everyday subjects.

True

Which of the following statements best relates to Max Ernst's Le Surrealisme et la Peinture (Surrealism and Painting)? a. strongly detailed realism is the most rewarding possibility as a means for making art b. it can be liberating when the imagination wanders into the mysterious realm of creativity c. the less abstract the better when it comes to depictions of artists in their studios d. it is important for every artwork one makes to have a clearly identifiable meaning e. all of the other answers

b

Augusta Savage's The Harp ("Lift Every Voice and Sing") was inspired by _____. a. the shape of a musical instrument b. ideas of community c. a song from 1900 d. African Americans e. all of the other answers

c

What innovation in art was Marcel Duchamp NOT responsible for? a. readymades b. conceptual art c. photomontage d. kinetic sculptures e. none of the other answers

c

Which of the following descriptions relates best to Helen Frankenthaler's Mountains and Sea? a. a year-long series of views from the window of her home at Lake Erie b. an intentional focus on the sentiment and nuance of the scene c. pouring paint onto unprimed canvas to focus on formal elements d. an ongoing search for the perfect blue e. none of the other answers

c

Juan Gris brought the everyday into Bottle of Banyuls by ________. a. smashing a bottle of wine and making a mosaic out of it b. collaging materials onto the wine bottle itself and attaching it to the canvas c. rendering the bottle so believably that many people were convinced it was real d. including an actual label from a bottle of Banyuls in the piece e. splashing wine directly on the composition as he created it

d

The artist of Unique Forms of Continuity in Space ________ the art movements and traditions of the past. a. directly followed b. revered c. wanted to improve d. wanted to leave behind e. none of the other answers

d

Artwork in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries can be _____. a. representational b. abstract c. non-objective d. experimental e. all of the other answers

e

User Picasso was influenced by art objects from ________ in his creation of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. a. Austria b. Australia c. India d. New York e. Africa

e